Chapter 099
The weather is very good today. Li Mu is sitting on a hot air balloon admiring the sea of clouds dyed golden by the sun.
Although the scenery is beautiful, he has no intention of admiring it now.
The city-building task also has stages. According to the information instilled when you first came to this world, the city-building task is divided into three stages. The first stage has a population of at least 10,000, the more the better, the second stage gives the city fire entity to build Spark City.
The final third stage is to resist the demon's minions, but the extent of the resistance is not disclosed.
But the longer it is, the better. At the same time, the smaller the casualties, the greater the benefits in the end.
After these days of search and rescue, the wasteland with a radius of thousands of miles around has almost only a population of more than 5,000 people. If you want to find the population, you can only go to the mountains near the wasteland and the cities where all the survivors have fled. But can you really find 5,000 living people in these hardest-hit areas?
He has Song Lei, so he discovered the survivors very early.
He has Apparition and Shrink Spell, so he can rescue all survivors found in one day.
Even so, he only saved 5,000 people in half a month. Even though his strength is not as good as those of the reserve City Lord who have accumulated a lot of experience, he does not think that he will lose to them in terms of saving people. In this case, how did the other reserve City Lord get 10,000 people?
Li Mu couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried, so in the end he could only take it one step at a time.
That night, Li Mu Apparition sneaked into the mountains.
The wasteland is the territory of White Goat, so except for those enslaved by White Goat, the total number of fire insects and fire animals is actually very small. However, it is different in the deep mountains. The number of fire insects here is mind-numbing.
If the fire insects hadn't killed each other, the ruler of Spark World wouldn't have had the chance to turn to other beings.
After several days, Li Mu only found a few hundred survivors.
Among them, there are seven who master the fire, which is why these people can survive here.
Li Mu tried to go deeper into the mountains, but encountered the legendary air wall that only exists in the game.
Obviously, there is only such a large copy map on the mountain side.
In desperation, he could only change the direction. The wasteland was surrounded by mountains on two sides, and there were plains and forest seas on one side and city ruins on the other. Li Mu found only one survivor in the city ruins and almost lost his life when he met White Goat. Only a few thousand people were found on the other side of the forest and sea.
After a whole month of busy work, the population limit has only reached 6,700.
Li Mu finally realized at this time that there was only one way to have a population of tens of thousands of survivors, and that was to rely on the remaining 3,300 people born from these 6,700 survivors. However, even if the survivors were forced to make mini-humans now, they would not be able to get a population of 10,000 in less than three years.
Because of the current population of 6,700, only a little over 1,000 of them can have children.
It makes Li Mu's scalp numb just thinking about wasting three years here.
So he thought of Precursors's biochemical laboratory. Cloning is Precursors's specialty. Even if he doesn't clone humans, it won't be a problem to get some test-tube babies. By then, there won't be as many people as there are people needed.
However, the first test-tube baby was still under care, and the unexpected discovery made him give up this path.
Because on this day, the population suddenly increased by one.
He checked all the survivors through magic and finally discovered that one of the survivors was pregnant with a baby.
Although she was just pregnant, the population still increased by one.
On the other hand, as the first test-tube baby he tried, he did not increase any population at all.
Li Mu After thinking about it for two days, I gradually figured out a possibility.
From the beginning, he may have underestimated the city-building task.
This city-building task is not something that can be easily completed in a short period of time. Even if he is so fast, he can only rescue 6,700 people. Those who are not ready for rescue speed, City Lord, will not even think about accumulating a population of 10,000 for seven or eight years.
But according to what he learned on the Internet, those firebrands City Lord did not waste so many years to complete the task of building the city.
So there is only one possibility, the time flow rate of city building dungeon is different from the outside world.
It takes several years here, but maybe only one month outside.
He was not just making a guess, he conducted certain verifications on his guess.
He tried to conduct Alchemical Enchantment on the time level, but the result was very unsatisfactory and very repulsive.
Based on the analysis of the repulsion results, the time flow rate in the replica world is at least one hundred times faster.
Knowing this, Li Mu's originally restless heart calmed down.
He began to try to spread the advanced civilization knowledge he had to the survivors, began to try to help the 11 orange fire owners develop their fire, and began to go all out to build this surviving base inhabited by 6,700 people.
His efforts have paid off, and at least 90% of people recognize him more and more.
As for the remaining 10%, there are a handful of people who are jealous and dissatisfied with him. Some of the rest are selfish and think that he should pay for them, and some are born to hold grudges but not gratitude. They don't care about these Li Mu. After all, people's hearts are unpredictable. It doesn't mean that you will get something in return for your efforts.
To be recognized by 90% of the survivors, Li Mu is already very satisfied and proud.
It will take at least three years for the population to exceed 10,000.
After such a long time, Li Mu has to prepare for the second phase of the city construction task.
Take out Philosopher's Stone and Li Mu to start strengthening.
After consuming 195,000 cards HuoZhong Source Power, he successfully enhanced Philosopher's Stone to LV15.
[Philosopher's Stone: Spark Artifact]
[Level: LV15]
[Quality: Blue Heaven Grade]
[Attributes: Consuming Spark Energy can convert low-quality metal into high-quality metal, consuming HuoZhong Source Power can generate Longevity Substance without side effects, limited by the enhancement level of Spark Artifact, the lowest quality Longevity Substance can extend the natural life span by up to 1500 years]
[Tip: The converted metal level cannot exceed the enhanced level]
[Tip: Longevity Substance can only take effect once regardless of quality]
[Strengthening requirements: 60000 cards HuoZhong Source Power]
Although the consumption is huge, Li Mu is not distressed at all.
First of all, the current Philosopher's Stone manufactured by Longevity Substance is enough to increase the lifespan of 1500 years.
It is not a problem for such a Longevity Substance to be sold for thousands of HuoZhong Source Coin if placed on Spark Network. Not to mention that Philosopher's Stone can also convert low-quality metal into LV15 level metal. The quality of Core Light Iron is also LV15 when placed on Spark World.
Since Philosopher's Stone was strengthened, Li Mu has only one main task every day.
Take out the high-strength special steel prepared in advance, and then consume Spark Energy through Philosopher's Stone to convert it into Core Light Iron.
To build a Titan Mech City, the metal materials required are terrifying.
Taking the most basic Titan Mech City with a diameter of one thousand meters and a height of five hundred meters as an example, the metal required is tens of millions of cubic meters. Because too much metal is required, the Titan Mech City will be very heavy. If it is too heavy, it will be affected when moving.
In order to reduce weight, the best way is to use metal with high strength and light weight as much as possible.
Ordinary steel weighs 7.8 tons per cubic meter, but Cloud Steel, which is several times stronger, weighs less than one ton. However, the price of Cloud Steel is hundreds of times that of ordinary steel. Tens of millions of cubic meters of Cloud Steel are worth the number Astronomy.
Therefore, most Titan Mech City need to be equipped with various anti-gravity devices.
The reason why Titan Sky City is difficult to build is because the cheapest metal used by Titan Sky City is Cloud Steel, so Li Mu dare not think about Titan Sky City now. At most, when conditions permit, Golden Crow City can be upgraded from Titan Mech City to Titan Sky City.
Although there are Philosopher's Stone and Li Mu, I never thought that the whole city would use Core Light Iron.
After all, Spark Energy also requires money, and Philosopher's Stone converting metal also requires process.
As time goes by, days and years pass.
Three years later, the population of the surviving base finally exceeded 10,000.
Li Mu A dialog box appeared in front of him again, with the option of whether to submit the first phase of the city construction task.
After some consideration, Li Mu chose No without hesitation.
Because after three years, he found that he had only aged for less than eleven days.
This also means that this city-building copy is indeed a hundred times different in time flow rate from Spark World, and it experiences a hundred times time acceleration here, but the reduced lifespan is calculated according to the normal time flow rate of Spark World.
Anyone who doesn't seize such a good opportunity is a fool.
If it were Spark World, how could he be willing to waste three years using Philosopher's Stone to convert metal every day? How could he have so much free time to practice his own magic spells? In the past three years, he has raised all commonly used magic spells to the upper limit of LV10.
In addition to these, Li Mu did not submit the task immediately because the current population is too unsafe.
He has never underestimated those White Goat. Even if he built Spark City, he could not guarantee that none of the population would die. If the number of people killed by White Goat dropped to 10,000, even if the city-building task of hell difficulty did not fail, the final evaluation and harvest would definitely be compromised.
Besides, if he delays for a few more years, he can convert more metals and Longevity Substance.
Longevity Substance, which extends life by 1,500 years, takes almost a year to produce.
If he stays here for a few more decades, he will earn back the HuoZhong Source Power he spent to strengthen Philosopher's Stone.
At this time, Li Mu still doesn't know what it means to be quiet but the wind is not stopping.
On this day, Li Mu transformed metal as usual.
Dong Dong Dong Dong!
There was a rapid knock on the door, and it was so hard that it even shook the door.
Li Mu put away Philosopher's Stone, and in a flash, a Unlocking Charm opened the door automatically. He saw Song Lei knocking on the door with a panic expression on his face. He suddenly realized that Song Lei might have discovered a danger that could endanger the surviving base, so he was so nervous and scared.
"What happened?"
Li Mu asked directly.
"There are at least one hundred thousand Demonized Sparrow approaching here."
Song Lei said nervously.
"Hiss!"
Li Mu feels like his breathing is cold. No wonder Song Lei is afraid of being so nervous.
Demonized Sparrow, this is a fire creature located on the other side of the forest sea. Its predecessor is the protective animal sparrow. After being fused with Spark Power, these sparrows become very dangerous. A large number of Demonized Sparrow can set off an extremely terrifying demonized storm.
HuoZhong Professional Fortunately, ordinary people will turn into murderous madmen after being exposed to the demonized storm for a few seconds.
Demonized Sparrow doesn't like to leave the forest, and there is no Demonized Sparrow food in the sky here in the wilderness.
In the past three years, both sides have been keeping their peace. Now, just a few days after the population reached 10,000, Demonized Sparrow suddenly rushed out and rushed towards the surviving base. This obviously went against common sense. Li Mu suddenly thought of something and summoned Glorious Scepter.
Glorious Scepter is a sacred object of fire, which can condense the civilization destiny of mankind under its command.
Even in the Fire dungeon, he could feel the continuous convergence of civilizational luck from the two different universes Phoenix Empire. However, in the surviving base, there was no trace of civilizational luck in the past three years. It was only in the past few days that the population exceeded 10,000.
"Song Lei, look at Lin Hai's side with all your strength."
Li Mu said without any doubt.
Although Song Lei was frightened, he still looked towards Lin Hai and activated Clairvoyance with all his strength.
After three years, he was able to see three thousand miles away under normal conditions with the help of Clairvoyance. If all Mental Power and Spark Energy were unleashed at full power, it would not be a problem to see four to five thousand miles away in a short period of time. Song Lei, which went all out, soon saw a scene that he could not believe.
Through Legilimency, Li Mu also saw what he wanted to see.
Sure enough, the leader of LV50 White Goat was deep in the forest sea.
Because White Goat is always the biggest threat, Song Lei will monitor the movements of all White Goat every day. If leader White Goat goes to Linhai, he will definitely find out immediately. And just now Song Lei saw leader White Goat eating grass in the wilderness.
Song Lei read it correctly, so there is only one truth.
Because of the convergence of civilization's fortunes, and because White Goat has not found a single human on the surface or underground in the past three years, the leader White Goat, who is very intelligent, has long analyzed that humans are hiding in the sky, but the sky is too vast and White Goat cannot fly, and the surviving bases are hidden by magic circles, so they cannot be found at all.
However, due to the convergence of civilization's luck, leader White Goat successfully locked the surviving base.
This left a clone-like double to confuse Song Lei, and his real body quietly sneaked into the forest, forcing Demonized Sparrow to attack the surviving base. If the White Goat leader was not eliminated, these Demonized Sparrow would be just appetizers, and the main meal would be carefully prepared later.
"This is no longer ordinary cleverness."
Li Mu exclaimed.
Although the White Goat leader cannot fly, with his LV50 strength, he can easily attack this surviving base while standing on the ground.
However, the leader White Goat did not attack the surviving base, but instead drove Demonized Sparrow to attack the surviving base. This seemed a bit unnecessary, but in fact it showed the intelligence of the leader White Goat and that it had broken away from the instinct and impulse of the beast.
That's why, without knowing the strength and weakness of human beings, we resorted to the tactic of killing people with borrowed knives to test the truth.
"Demonized Sparrow is attacking, everyone should evacuate to the safe house according to the drill."
Li Mu added a Amplifying Charm sound to himself that spread throughout the surviving base.
Within a moment, survivors emerged one after another from each house in the survival base. They all gathered in front of a metal ball suspended in the air in the middle of the survival base, and then lined up and reached out to press the metal ball before disappearing.
As early as three years ago, Li Mu began to think about various backup measures.
The safe house is built to be used at such moments. The safe house is built using Wind Tunnel Iron and has been expanded internally by Vanishment Charm. It has enough space for 10,000 people to live for several years and enough food for 10,000 people to eat for several years.
In order to build this safe house for three years, he spent half of his free time on it.
Although it is a fire copy, the space intensity is not much different from that of Spark World. It is difficult to use Vanishment Charm to expand the space here. You can't even think about opening up a small world that can exist for hundreds of years like the alien universe.
Even if this safe house has limited space, the space inside will collapse after a few years at most.
So within a few years, Spark City must be established.
PS: Thanks to brother [Lost Love Memories] for the 1500 reward.